RT Journal Article
T1 Mineral deposits in cells of Hookeria lucens
A1 Ron Álvarez, María Eugenia
A1 Estébanez, B.
A1 Alfayate, C.
A1 Marfil Pérez, Rafaela
A1 Cortella, A.
AB Mineral deposits are frequent in vascular plants, but only calcite, whewellite, and ferrihydrite have been described previously in bryophytes. Hookeria lucens is a terricolous and pleurocarpous moss with reddish-brown deposits of mineral substances present inside gametophyte cells. Observations with a light microscope, SEM and TEM Edax analysis, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) indicated the presence of the minerals bohemite, calcite, diaspore, feldspar, ferrihydrite, gibbsite, jarosite, lepidocrocite, opal, pirolusite, and quartz inside hydrom, cortex and phyllidia cells. XRD analysis of the soils where the mosses were growing indicated the presence of chlorite, diaspore, feldspar, kaolinite, mica, plagioclase, quartz, and smectite. The origin of these minerals in the tissues of H. lucens is uncertain, but they may have resulted from a biomineralization process inside the moss cells from plant elements, such as Mn and S, and from those in the soil on which the mosses were growing.
PB Taylor & Francis
SN 0373-6687
YR 1999
FD 1999
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112922
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112922
LA eng
NO Ron, E., Estebanez, B., Alfayate, C., Marfil, R., & Cortella, A. (1999). Mineral deposits in cells of Hookeria lucens . Journal of Bryology, 21(4), 281–288. https://doi.org/10.1179/jbr.1999.21.4.281
NO Dirección General de Investigación Científica y Técnica (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 17 abr 2025